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Review 1DiscussionA review by John Chard
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Written by John Chard on Sat Jan 05 2019
What I did was in the name of peace. Your war, like all wars, glories in devastation and death.
Mysterious Island is a loose adaptation of Jules Verne's novel of the same name. It's out of Columbia Pictures and was filmed at Shepperton Studios in England with exteriors on the coast of Spain. Directed by Cy Endfield, with Ray Harryhausen working his stop motion genius for the creatures, it stars Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert & Dan Jackson. Bernard Herrmann provides the score.
The plot sees three Union soldiers escaping i...
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